A Linux version of Opera GX is in the works, according to a tweet posted to the official X account. The company announced the plans via a snarky post linking to news article on Microsoft adding an AI sidebar to Windows 11’s file manager, writing: “Is this a good time to announce that we are working on the Linux version of Opera GX?”. As good a time as any, I’d say. Opera GX: What is It? Opera GX is a gaming-centric version of the regular Opera web browser that pairs the web with a variety of gaming related extras, like […]

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A new version of the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ has been released with enough power to run popular generative AI (GenAI) models, including Qwen and DeepSeek. The first generation Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ add-ons were designed for on-device acceleration of vision-based neural network models, but weren’t powerful enough to run more generalised large-language models (LLMs) – something the new AI HAT+ 2 solves. Described as the company’s “first AI product designed to fill the generative AI gap”, the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 packs in a Hailo-10H NPU with 40 TOPS (INT4) of inferencing performance and is paired with 8GB […]

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Sustaining a Core Part of the Linux Ecosystem The Linux Foundation has announced a second year of sponsorship for the ongoing maintenance of the Linux manual pages (man-pages) project, led by Alejandro (Alex) Colomar. This critical initiative is made possible through the continued support of Google, Hudson River Trading, and Meta, who have renewed their […]

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A two-year partnership aimed at bolstering security for Python and PyPI.

Native ARM support expands the open source office suite's reach.

Do you know what was always there but has increased multiple times in the last decade? Yes, remote work. These days your teams are usually not in the same place, not in the same country sometimes. With the distributed teams and people working from different places, it’s very common for them to access your business […]

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An alpha release of Orion for Linux, a new Webkit-based web browser from paid search engine Kagi, is out for testing – and early impressions are positive.

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A fresh menu, troubleshooting tools, and other improvements arrive in this point release.

Ubuntu engineers are rebuilding all archive packages in Ubuntu 26.04 to ensures all hardware compatibility features are enabled – important for an LTS cycle.

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Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is here. Built on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, it brings a new-look app menu, Linux 6.14 kernel, and a pair of new system management tools.

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Wine 11.0 improves gaming performance with kernel-level synchronisation, legacy 32-bit Windows app support and expanded Wayland integration. Full details inside.

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Considering the vast configuration options it offers, you can guess why so many Linux users prefer Dash to Dock over others.

I wonder if Extension Manager could make it into Fedora one day.

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Brief: In this guide, we will discuss the best tools for monitoring and debugging disk I/O activity (performance) on Linux

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After 8 years, Microsoft's tool for designing Windows apps is now open source.

New release gives Linux laptop users more control over CPU performance while fixing battery detection issues.

Firefox 147 released with XDG directory support ending a 20-year Linux bug, auto Picture-in-Picture, better AMD video performance, and new web standards.

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The Rust-based ALPM project is looking suspiciously like Pacman's replacement.